New Office of Atelier D+Y

The office is located on the south side of the office park, with a row of bamboos on one side of the adjacent public walkway. In the sunlight, the dappled bamboo shadows fall inside.





With a height difference of 1 meter between exterior and interior, the exterior landscape shall rise to the eye level along the steps downward, flooding inside like a miniature garden. The change of the height relationship makes the "magnified" plants the focus of the interior space.





How shall the interior design work in cooperation with the exterior landscape?





Ⅰ. All scenes incorporated in an empty space -- an "empty" space can accommodate the bamboo landscape, drawing dynamically changing light and shadow into the interior.





Firstly, try to place use functions on the edge. To be specific, in the sunken area, the north side is used as the office area, the west side is used for reading and discussion, the south side close to the corridor is for display, and the east side next to stairs is for resting and receiving visitors.





Ⅱ. All made of earth -- "earth" is used as the main material for walls, floors and ceilings.





Natural clay is used for the walls, top surfaces and cabinet doors, while micro cement of the same color, better in hard-wearing and waterproof, is used for the floors, bar and work table. During the construction, uneven marks were deliberately left with the scraper to enhance the natural roughness of the clay, thus forming a natural primitive cave space.





The booth and bar with the texture of earth, as well as the falling steps, irradiated with sunshine, look dimensional as a sculpture. Besides, the mini landscape of bamboos outside the window fits right into this big sculpture.





Ⅲ. Continuous bamboo landscape -- continuous green plants outside echo the interior landscape.





The structural columns in the middle are covered with mirror stainless steel, absent through reflection.